Humor Therapy Helps Cancer Patients
October 18, 2017The Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center at Montefiore Hospital hosted a hilarity session for the cancer patients, some even with advanced stages of the illness. Fox News published an article in November of 2008, revealing the results of humor on the cancer patients. This was the hospital’s monthly “Strength Through Laughter” therapy. This is only one […]
Screening For Adolescent Cancer Survivor
October 16, 2017The Childhood Cancer Survivors Study has completed research that identified profiles of psychological symptoms in adolescent cancer survivors. This is expected to advance mental health screening and treatment. No psychological symptoms have been reported by most of the adolescent survivors of childhood cancer. However, an analysis by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital found that those […]
Cancer-Promoting Protein Levels
October 12, 2017Maintaining a healthy diet and exercising frequently can lower blood protein associated with promoting cancer development. There was a study published in the journal Cancer Research that found a reduction in the levels of a blood protein involved in angiogenesis when overweight and obese women experienced weight loss through their diet and exercise. The process by which […]
Dr. Otto Warburg won the Novel Prize Physiology or Medicine in 1931 for his discovery that cancer cells have a fundamentally different energy metabolism compared to healthy cells. How does the metabolic inflexibility of cancer cells differ from healthy cells? Energy can be produced by a cell in two ways: aerobically in the mitochondria, or […]
Five Facts You Should Know About Ovarian Cancer
September 18, 2017Ovarian cancer is the most terminal type of gynecologic cancer, taking the lives of nearly 15,000 women each year. Difficulty in detection is what makes this disease malignant. Although symptoms such as constipation, abdominal pressure, and loss of appetite exist, they are too ambiguous and often misinterpreted as premenstrual or perimenopausal symptoms. Doctors can’t always […]
Cancer deaths that are attributable to cigarette smoking varies across the United State but has reached nearly 40% of the cancer deaths in men that were connected to smoking, according to an article published online by JAMA Internal Medicine. Currently there are around 40 million current adult cigarette smokers in the U.S. and this still remains […]
Neem used in Prostate Cancer Treatment
August 16, 2017One of the most common cancers in men is prostate cancer. The latest statistics report about 181,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year in the U.S. There is, however, a survival rate of about 80%, and about 26,000 die each year from the disease. All of the conventional diagnostics and treatment options leave […]
There are things to consider prior to sharing your cancer experience with others, as each individual has many twists and turns as well as ups and downs. Your own story is very personal and you alone should decide how, when, if and with whom it is shared with. Your decision to share might also vary […]
Cancer Overtakes Heart Disease
July 26, 2017The diseases of the heart and blood vessels kill more people worldwide than anything else, but cancer has now overtaken CVD as the main cause of death in 12 European countries. The European Heart Journal published new data on the burden of CVD in Europe for 2016. The European region is defined as the 53 […]
A cancer patient’s quality of life during treatment can significantly be impacted by the financial burden and might even increase their risk of death, according to the result of an analysis presented at the ESMO 2016 Congress in Copenhagen. This is true even in countries where the national public health system covers most of […]
